19: 45 - Flamingo Land with the Three Rs.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Written by: Dee4leeds

It's that time again! It's "Three Rs on Tour" time! Today's journey takes us to Yorkshire's biggest and one of the UK's fastest growing theme parks; Flamingo Land.

OK, we shall admit. It's only two "Rs" with the third, Alex, being a friend of the website.

So off we went into the grand ole city of Leeds, but it seemed that somebody didn't bring enough money. This "somebody" being none other than Mr. Melaisis. We had to scrap the money together but we had enough, both Alex and myself gave him our money. The oversight seemed make Scott think...



...and yes, me and Alex are horrible enough to make Scott give us I.O.Us...



We shall get our money back! That's quite an odd smile on my face there, like a sexual predator after getting "the goods."

Anyway fast forward through a long... long... long bus journey and we are at Flamingo Land!



But seconds within the park the Three Rs (And Alex) discovered something. Something really odd. An unexplainable feet of physics. The girders holding the roof over the dodgems is not connected to anything... not even the roof. Well the ground obviously. No need to get smart.



The park seemed to be smaller than usual, probably because we are taller. But anyway we decided to go on a ride than didn't look any smaller, Cliffhanger a.k.a Are you Over Compensating for Something? Yeah, you guessed it, Scott chickened out like a chicken eating cheese sandwiches. But in retrospect we wouldn't have pictures if not. So I applaud you Scott!



On the ride with us was an abundance of French people, yeah we don't know why either., but I tried to speak French to them... failed obviously but still here's my "I just spoke French" face.



Yes it is similar to my "The Sun's in my eyes but I'm still smiling" face.

Anyway I, Dee4leeds, being the dominate one allowed Scott and Alex to chose the next ride. UK's favourite ride Nemesis Kumali? Velocity a.k.a Crotch Rocket? or maybe even Busch Gardens 4-D cinema? Nope. The "Pedal Boats." As I allowed them to choose the ride (albeit unwisely) I allowed them to do the pedaling. I just sat back and enjoyed the gay taunts we were getting from the young rapscallions in another boat.



I did learn something, never trust Alex or Scott to drive a boat. Ever. I'm surprised the barriers are still there let alone the tree they got me stuck in! But the time in the tree gave me some time to get the official best picture of the day.

Drumroll please...



Thank you.

Next we went to the best part of the park, the kid's part. Featuring a pseudo-horror theme, a farm theme and a bunch of helicopters. Again we couldn't figure out why that was a good idea. We only went there for one thing: The Little Monster's Exploratorium.



After finding it, we discovered it was destroyed. Not literally, it had been moved. However we found out that nothing worked. Not even the legendary "Shadow Wall." Oh the pain and anguish we felt when we peeled ourselves back from the wall to find nothing... And not only that the floor left little to the imagination...



This heart breaker brought us to the zoo area. (And thank you my shoes are great.) In the zoo we were surprised not to find Richard O'Brien or maybe even Ed Tudor-Pole. As it seemed Flamingo Land had decided to "START THE FANS... PLEASE!"



...it was a Crystal Maze joke... it looks like the Crystal dome... oh go fuck yourselves. ("Swearing? Tut, that's not a good thing for the Three Rs.)

It was time to go, and we agreed a good time was had by all. (All referring to us and the 5 other people in the park.) However before we could get the bus home, something outside the park caught our attention. A certain benchmark in car modification. A hidden gem we felt needed to be shared with the world.



Ciao!

Labels: Flamingo land, The Three Rs on tour

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